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Test Yourself! Grandelius (2491) - Berg (2610) Sigeman & Co (4), Malmo, 06.06.2009 XIIIIIIIIY Li Shilong (2557) - Hao (2696) 8-+-+-+k+0 Ch Xinghua Jiangsu, 01.06.2009 7+-zpr+p+-0 XIIIIIIIIY 6p+-wq-snpzp0 8-+-+-trk+0{ 5+-+-tR-+-0 7+-+-+-zp-0 4-+LzP-+PzP0 6-+-tr-+-+0 3+-+-+Q+-0 5+-+ltR-zp-0 2P+-+-zPK+0 4-+-tR-+-+0 1+-+-+-+-0} 3zP-+-+-+-0 xabcdefghy 2-+-+-+PzP0 1+-+-+-mK-0 xabcdefghy On This Day … by GM Alex Baburin

Wang Hao (2696) - Ukrainian GM Ruslan Pogorelov turns (2511), China Ch, Xinghua Jiangsu 50 today. (11), 06.06.2009 XIIIIIIIIY 8-+-+-+-+0{ 7+-+-+-+-0 World Chess News 6-+-+-+-+0 5+ksn-+-+p0 4-+-+-+PzP0 3zp-+-+K+-0 Chinese Championships 2-+-+-+-+0 1+-sN-+-+-0 The Chinese Championships took xabcdefghy place in Xinghua Jiangsu between the 26th May and the 6th of June 2009.

Main Ch, final standings: (2643) - (2704) 1. (2458)- 8½/11 China Ch Xinghua Jiangsu, 02.06.2009 2. GM (2696) – 8 XIIIIIIIIY 3. GM Bu Xiangzhi (2704) – 7 8-+ktr-+r+0 4. GM (2563) - 6½ 5-6. GMs Li Chao (2643) and 7zpp+-vlpzp-0 (2724) – 6, etc. 6-+-+-+-zp0 5+-zpl+-+-0 I'd like to quote Mark Crowther of 4q+-+-+-zP0 TWIC : "Liren Ding won the 3+-vL-wQ-+-0 championship after long time leader 2PzPP+-zPP+0 Wang Hao lost in the final round. 1+K+R+L+R0} However the story is more dramatic xabcdefghy than that. Ding won his final round game by default after his opponent Assess 18.£xe7 arrived late, I can't even imagine what impact this had on Wang's frame of mind. This follows the round 8 default where arrived 5 seconds This issue is prepared by GM Alex Baburin; technical editor: Ralph Marconi Subscription is 15 euro for 3 months. For further details please refer to http://www.chesstoday.net CT-158 (3134) Page 1 of 5 late against Liang Chong. I can't begin Standings after 4 rounds: to say how idiotic these new FIDE 1-2. Gashimov (2730) and Motylev regulations are." (2677) – 3½ 3. Inarkiev (2676) - 3 4. Naiditsch (2700) – 2½ Ladies' Ch, final standings: 5-6. Bologan (2690) and Sutovsky 1. WGM (2420) – 9/11 (2660) - 2 2. GM (2531) - 8½ 7. Efimenko (2682) - 1½ 3. (2436) – 8 8-9. Rublevsky (2702) and Onischuk 4. WIM Zhang Xiaowen (2340) – 7, etc (2684) – 1 10. Shirov (2745) – 0. You can find all games from the Chinese championships in our Official website (in Russian). database today. Official website

Sigeman & Co., Malmo Lublin, Poland Round 4 results: This close tournament concluded Short - Hillarp Persson ½-½ yesterday. You can find all games Grandelius - Berg 1-0 from that event in our database today. Nyback - I. Sokolov ½-½

Final Standings: Standings before the last round: 1. GM Grachev (RUS, 2652) – 6/9 1. Short (ENG, 2674) – 3½/4 2-3. GMs Roiz (ISR, 2635) and 2-3. I. Sokolov (NED 2669) and IM Wojtaszek (POL, 2630) - 5½ Grandelius (SWE, 2491) – 2½ 4. GM B. Socko (POL, 2637) - 5 4. Nyback (FIN, 2655) – 1½ 5. GM S. Zhigalko (BLR, 2622) - 4½ 5-6. Hillarp Persson (SWE, 2618) and 6-9. GMs Khenkin (GER, 2630), Berg (SWE, 2610) - 1 Dziuba (POL, 2535), Gajewski (POL, 2571) and Bartel (POL, 2601) - 4 Official website 10. GM Malakhatko (BEL, 2618) - 2½.

Official website 39th Capablanca Memorial

This category XVI tournament Guillermo Garcia Memorial (average rating – 2657) starts at the Pan American Hotel in Havana today. This closed tournament finished in Cuba yesterday. The players are: • Leinier Dominguez (Cuba, 2721) Final Standings: • Artyon Timofeev (Russia, 2677) 1. Fidel Corrales – 6/8 • (Russia, 2655) 2. Emilio Cordova – 5 • 3-4. Holden Hernandez and Lazaro Geor Meier (Germany, 2641) Bruzon - 4½, etc. • Igor Khenkin (Germany, 2630) • Lazaro Bruzon (Cuba, 2617)

10th Karpov tournament Official website in Poikovsky, Russia

Round 4 results: XXII Leon Tournament Inarkiev - Naiditsch 1-0 Sutovsky - Motylev 0-1 In the second semi-final match Efimenko - Rublevsky 1-0 (Norway, 2770) beat Onischuk - Bologan ½-½ (China, 2738) 3½-2½ and Shirov - Gashimov 0-1 will now face Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine, 2751) in the final. This issue is prepared by GM Alex Baburin; technical editor: Ralph Marconi Subscription is 15 euro for 3 months. For further details please refer to http://www.chesstoday.net CT-158 (3134) Page 2 of 5 Wang Yue took an early lead after Ellenboro Elementary School in North winning game 2, but Carlsen levelled Carolina used their school's computer the score in game 3 and finally lab to connect, via the world-wide prevailed in blitz. An endgame web, with their counterparts across the position from game 1 is worth globe for this live match mentioning: One of the oddities of the match was Carlsen (2770) - Wang Yue (2738) that the players were 14 time zones XXII Rapid KO Leon (1.1), 06.06.2009 apart! The American children were XIIIIIIIIY playing on Wednesday evening, June 8-+-+-+-+0{ 3, starting at 6:00 PM. But the 7+-+-+k+-0 Australian chess kids were playing on 6-+-mK-zp-+0 Thursday morning, June 4, at 8:00 AM, 5tR-+-+-+p0 before school! Crikey!!

4-+-+-+lzP0 Some of the parameters of the match 3+-+-+-zP-0 were: 2-+-+-+-+0 1+-+-+-+-0 • each team fielded 10 boards (plus xabcdefghy alternates) • time control was game in 20 This is a fortress - White can't get his minutes (sudden death) king close to the f-pawn. • tournament officials on each side ensured proper conduct of the Official website match • Video hook-up via Skype connected the two locations Leko vs. Anand allowing the kids to great each other In game 5 Vishy Anand again opted • for the Gruenfeld Defence. For a while Games will be CXR-rated and all the players repeated game 4, which players will receive 1 year of my colleague GM Mikhail Golubev premium CXR service annotated in CT-3132, but Anand deviated from it on move 11. After CXR founder Russ Mollot stated that interesting fight he scored a second Chess Kids and CXR hope to hold victory in this match. Anand also stood several additional intercontinental better in game 6, but Leko saved the matches in the near future "to bring endgame. Anand is now leading 4-2. this synergy of chess and computer technology to more youngsters in Official website more states. We are looking for more candidates to participate in this ground-breaking project."

Press-release June 4, 2009. For any additional information, email: [email protected] Elementary School Kids in North Carolina Play Live Match with Australian Kids Annotated Game by GM Alex Baburin Chess eXpress Ratings (CXR) teamed up with Chess Kids (the biggest Today I'd like to show a short draw I scholastic chess organization "down made against my friend Sam Collins in under") to organize a friendly chess the Nagoya Open. This game may match. What was unusual about the appear boring, but there was match was that half the players were something hidden beneath the in Rutherford County, North Carolina, surface... and their opponents were in Melbourne, Australia! Students from This issue is prepared by GM Alex Baburin; technical editor: Ralph Marconi Subscription is 15 euro for 3 months. For further details please refer to http://www.chesstoday.net CT-158 (3134) Page 3 of 5 Collins (2429) - Baburin (2541) Black can opt for 9...¤5f6, but to me Nagoya Open (2), 23.05.2009 this looks like a concession. White The Alekhine Defence- [B04] should be better here. One example: 10.¤c3 ¥b4 11.¥f4 ¥xc3 12.bxc3 0–0 1.e4 ¤f6 2.e5 ¤d5 3.d4 d6 4.¤f3 13.£b3 £c8 14.¤h4 ¥g4 15.f3 ¥h5 dxe5 5.¤xe5 c6 (D) 16.g4 ¥g6 17.¥d6 ¦d8 18.¤xg6 hxg6 XIIIIIIIIY 19.g5 ¤e8 20.¥e7 £c7 21.¥xd8 ¦xd8 8rsnlwqkvl-tr0 22.f4± Shashikant - Short, Nagpur 7zpp+-zppzpp0 2008. 6-+p+-+-+0 10.¤c3 Black was was absolutely fine after 5+-+nsN-+-0 10.¤a3 ¥e7 11.¥d2 0–0 12.¥c3 a5 4-+-zP-+-+0 13.£b3?! b6 in the game Kostenko - 3+-+-+-+-0 Dergilev, Tomsk 2006. 2PzPP+-zPPzP0 Things get really heated after 10.a3!? 1tRNvLQmKL+R0} ¤c2 11.¦a2 c5! (Black should avoid xabcdefghy 11...¤xd4? 12.£xd4 c5 13.£c3 ¥xb1 14.¥g5 f6 15.¦xb1 fxg5 16.£e3± Currently this is Black's most popular Carlsen - Madsen, Trondheim 2004.) system against the Main Variation 12.d5 e5 (12...¤d4 13.¤xd4 cxd4 (4.¤f3). It makes sense to support the 14.dxe6 fxe6 15.¥d3 ¥xd3 16.£xd3 d5-knight as White has £f3 ideas, etc. ¤c5 17.£e2÷ Ramesh - Grunberg, One important point about this line is Olomouc 2004.) 13.¥g5 ¥e7 14.¥xe7 that the hasty 6.c4? gives Black an easy £xe7 15.¥d3 ¥xd3 16.£xd3 ¤d4÷ game: 6...¤b4 7.¥e3 ¥f5 8.¤d3? Vogt - Loeffler, Austria 2002. (¹8.¤a3) 8...e5!. I won three games 10...¤c2 11.¦b1 ¤b4 (D) with Black from this position. Try to XIIIIIIIIY be in such a great shape after 8 moves 8r+-wqkvl-tr0 in the Najdorf! ☺ 7zpp+n+pzpp0 6.¥e2 ¥f5 7.0–0 6-+p+p+-+0 The principled line here is probably 5+-+-+l+-0 7.g4, for example: 7...¥e6 8.c4 ¤b6 4-snPzP-+-+0 9.b3 f6 10.¤d3 £xd4 11.¥b2 £d8 3+-sN-+N+-0 12.¤c3 ¤a6÷ Kasparov - Short, 2002. 2PzP-+LzPPzP0 7...¤d7 8.¤f3 e6 (D) 1+RvLQ+RmK-0} XIIIIIIIIY xabcdefghy 8r+-wqkvl-tr0 7zpp+n+pzpp0 Can White avoid a draw here? I had a 6-+p+p+-+0 feeling that he should be able to do so - after all, he did not do anything 5+-+n+l+-0 wrong (¥e2, 0–0, ¤f3, c2-c4, ¤c3), 4-+-zP-+-+0 did he? But I could not see any 3+-+-+N+-0 reasonable way for White to fight on - 2PzPP+LzPPzP0 and neither could Sam. Curiously, 1tRNvLQ+RmK-0} both Fritz 11 and Rybka see it! White xabcdefghy had to play 12.¥g5 f6 13.¥e3 ¥xb1 14.£xb1 (D) 9.c4 XIIIIIIIIY White can prepare c2-c4 with 9.a3. 8r+-wqkvl-tr0{ After 9...¥e7 10.c4 ¤5f6 11.¤c3 h6 7zpp+n+-zpp0 12.¥f4 0–0 13.d5 exd5 14.cxd5 ¤xd5 6-+p+pzp-+0 5+-+-+-+-0 15.¤xd5 cxd5 16.£xd5 ¥e6 17.£xb7± 4-snPzP-+-+0 White eventually won in the game 3+-sN-vLN+-0 Rublevsky - Carlsen, Moscow 2007. 2PzP-+LzPPzP0 But I think that Black should be fine 1+Q+-+RmK-0 after the standard move 9...b5!?. xabcdefghy 9...¤b4 This issue is prepared by GM Alex Baburin; technical editor: Ralph Marconi Subscription is 15 euro for 3 months. For further details please refer to http://www.chesstoday.net CT-158 (3134) Page 4 of 5 OK, White is an exchange down, but Li Chao (2643) - Bu Xiangzhi (2704) all his pieces are mobilized, while China Ch Xinghua Jiangsu, 02.06.2009 Black still need to play ...¥e7 and XIIIIIIIIY castle. The e6-pawn is weak and so is 8-+ktr-+r+0 Black's kingside. White is going to 7zpp+-vlpzp-0 play a2-a3 and after ...¤b4-a6 he can 6-+-+-+-zp0 choose between b2-b4 and d4-d5!. 5+-zpl+-+-0 All in all, White has great compensation for the exchange, but 4q+-+-+-zP0 what really impressed me is that 3+-vL-wQ-+-0 computers found this idea - clearly 2PzPP+-zPP+0 they are no longer just 'bean counters'! 1+K+R+L+R0} 12.¦a1 ¤c2 13.¦b1 ¤b4 ½–½. xabcdefghy

White had to play 18.b3 £c6 Solutions to our Quiz: 19.¥d3². The game went 18.£xe7?? £xa2+ 19.¢c1 £a1+ 20.¢d2 Li Shilong (2557) - Wang Hao (2696) £xd1+ 0–1. China Ch Xinghua Jiangsu, 01.06.2009 XIIIIIIIIY Grandelius (2491) - Berg (2610) 8-+-+-trk+0{ Sigeman & Co (4), Malmo, 06.06.2009 7+-+-+-zp-0 XIIIIIIIIY 6-+-tr-+-+0 8-+-+-+k+0 5+-+ltR-zp-0 7+-zpr+p+-0 4-+-tR-+-+0 6p+-wq-snpzp0 3zP-+-+-+-0 5+-+-tR-+-0 2-+-+-+PzP0 4-+LzP-+PzP0 1+-+-+-mK-0 3+-+-+Q+-0 xabcdefghy 2P+-+-zPK+0 1+-+-+-+-0} 35...¥c4! 0–1. xabcdefghy

26.¥e6! ¦e7™ 27.£xf6 ¦xe6 Wang Hao (2696) - Liang Chong 28.¦xe6 £xe6 29.£xe6 fxe6 (2511), China Ch, Xinghua Jiangsu 30.¢f3 ¢f7 31.¢f4+- ¢f6 32.a3 a5 (11), 06.06.2009 33.g5+ hxg5+ 34.hxg5+ ¢e7 XIIIIIIIIY 35.¢e5 a4 36.d5 exd5 37.¢xd5 8-+-+-+-+0{ ¢d7 38.¢c5 ¢e6 39.¢b4 ¢d5 7+-+-+-+-0 40.¢xa4 ¢e4 (or 40...¢c4 41.f4+-) 6-+-+-+-+0 41.¢b5 ¢d5 42.a4 c6+ 43.¢b6 5+ksn-+-+p0 1–0.

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